Federal government technology is “painfully outdated”: Trump

During a meeting with the heads of pioneer tech companies including Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, US President Donald Trump has disparaged the federal government technology as “painfully outdated”.

In a meeting held at the White House on Monday, US President said, “Today, many of our agencies rely on painfully outdated technology, and yet, we have the greatest people in technology that the world has ever seen right here with us.”

Trump was accompanied by the presidential advisers, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The US President highlighted that the “government needs to catch up with the technology revolution”.

He said, “Our goal is to lead a sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology that will deliver dramatically better services for citizens.”